Knowing the big titles coming next year, do you still think the NX will be coming out holiday 2016?

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

The only "big" title in development for the Wii U is Zelda.

And they're mysteriously now refusing to show it and delayed it a year, which reeks of the exact same situation that happened with Twilight Princess. They would share TP media somewhat regularily and then we got a big block of radio slience on the game, and the next we saw it, ta-da it's suddenly a Wii game.

Star Fox, Pokken, SMT x Fire Emblem, Mario Tennis these are just farmed out projects that Nintendo is not developing internally, when Nintendo's lineup starts to become majority outsourced/farmed out projects, it's another tell tale sign that they're ending their involvement with a console.

GameCube's end cycle was the same story ... Star Fox Assault, Battallion Wars, Mario Strikers, Mario Party, Pokemon XD, Geist ... you may say, wow that's plenty of support, but actually none of these games were made internally by Nintendo's main studios.

It's also curious that Miyamoto would not specify a platform for Pikmin 4 either. I do think it'll probably be a Wii U game, because it'll be cheap to just add content to the existing Pikmin 3 engine, but why not say it's for the Wii U if that is the case? That also makes me go "hmmm". 

Ya basically all of the EAD Groups (former EAD Groups) next projects should release in late 2016-2018, of course these titles are going to be for their next generation hardware. If Zelda U doesn't also release on NX than it will be 2020-2021 before it gets a Zelda, I don't think Nintendo wants to make a trend of Zelda releasing 4+ years after the hardware launches.

Mario Maker just released so it will likely be another 3 or so years before another 2D Mario releases, Splatoon/Happy Home Designer just released so it will be another 3 or so years before the Group that develops those titles has sequels out. Mario Kart released last year and that team had been pretty consistent about releasing a new MK every 3 years. Same with console 3D Mario releases, they are about every 3 years so a new one in late 2016 is possible, if that's for Wii U than NX won't have one until 2019/2020, that's way too late.

Retro released their last game in early 2014, a new game in 2017 seems likely. Intelligent Systems has released Codename STEAM, Stretchmo, Fire Emblem all in the last 6 months and has assisted on SMTxFE which releases in Japan in a few months so it's very unlikely we will see any major projects from them for another 2-3 years.

So it seems like basically all of Nintendo's major internal teams and subsidiaries should release their next major projects between late 2016-2018, if Nintendo is wise than these titles will be coming to NX.